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Thanks, I think that makes sense, i'll give it a try tonight.

Ah ok, you mean manually create/assign the partitions before running the unattended installation. Yeah that'd be ok - i'm struggling to find any information in your posts regarding actually doing that though. I've found plenty of information on using migrate.inf for a usb installation but none describing how to actually create one and get the cd to use it. Sorry if i'm being stupid but i've not had to mess with that before.

Hi, I’ve created an XP SP2 unattended installation which works exactly as I want except that on some pcs (usually when they have card readers or sata drives) the installation doesn’t label the windows drive as C: (it assigns the drive letter H: instead for example). I have set the following in winnt.sif so that I can configure the format and partition options manually for each pc (this is essential for me): [Data] AutoPartition=0 [unattended] FileSystem=* I’ve looked everywhere for a solution to this, it seems I need to modify the switches passed to winnt32.exe so that /tempdrive and /syspart specify the drive to be C: but I’ve been unable to figure out how to do this. I believe it’s possible to use Win/BartsPE to do this but I’m not sure how to do that and was hoping to avoid going down that route just to force the drive letter to C: if I could. Does anyone know of a way to do this? Having the windows drives configured as G/H is really not good for my environment. Thanks in advance, Mark.

i installed the driverpack using method1, i also added the dosnet.inf entries. when i install windows on a normal ide drive it works fine, but when install it on a sata drive, even when the disc doesnt detect the drive, i get blue screen at the start of the gui install phase. anyone have any idea why?

nm sorted problem.

i used this with CloneDVD2435 and it worked perfect, n1 jsut a note though, i tried using it with slysoft ANYDVD3936 and although it worked, that installer doesn't ask to reboot at end when the /S switch is used, and thus the script never ended, which would result in your "runonceex" freezing, probably forever. nice work tho heres the reg info btw: AnyDVD: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SlySoft\AnyDVD\Key] "Key"="cdkeyhere" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] "AnyDVD"=-

for photoshop, edit Abcpy.ini like so: [OEM Install] DisplayWelcomeDlg=NO DisplayEULA=NO DisplayXPDialog=NO DisplayTypeOfInstallDlg=NO DisplaySelectDestDirDlg=NO DisplayCustomDlg=NO DisplayUserInfoDlg=NO DisplayConfirmRegDlg=NO DisplayStartCopyDlg=NO DisplayFinishDlg=NO DisplayFinalMessage=NO DisplayRebootDlg=NO ProgGroupName= DefaultDestDir=C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop UserName=BillyG UserCompanyName=none UserSerialNumber=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx DisplayBackGround=NO DisplayProgressBar=NO ProgressBarStart=NO ProgressBarEnd=NO

ty. 1 more thing. when doing this in sp2, which of the following lines should i use? [sourceDisksFiles] fasttx2k.sys = 1,,,,,,3_,4,1 or [sourceDisksFiles] fasttx2k.sys = 1,,,,,,4_,4,1,,,1,4 not sure what it all means, any help is appreciated :S

yes i do have an asus board. thing is, if i put the promise drivers supplied with the driver pack on a floppy and run setup in the normal way it works. is there a way i can get this supported or manually add the drivers? :S

hi, ive been trying to integrate the raid\sata drivers into my unattended xp disc so i dont have to press F6 on startup to load the drivers from a floppy. ive tried following several of the threads on this forum including the masssStorage driverpack. after trying the above i am still required to load drivers from a floppy disc. i have a promise raid controller and 2 hdd's, one 80gb standard ATA and one 180gb sata. ty in advance